trump wants fema money to go to churches.....tweet

[spanone]

Link to tweet

Churches in Texas should be entitled to reimbursement from FEMA Relief Funds for helping victims of Hurricane Harvey (just like others).

[dalton99a]

1. "Mnuchin, give Osteen a check"

He needs another airplane

[SHRED]

2. Entitled?

WTF??

[cyclonefence]

5. He--and the RW in general--don't understand

selflessness. Every action has a price tag because none of them would do anything for another human being without being paid for it.

[Igel]

12. Lots of people and companies and organizations are entitled to FEMA money.

"Entitle" just means "to give (someone) a legal right or a just claim to receive or do something." It's just a verb. It has a past participle "entitled."

"Entitled" is also an adjective that means "believing oneself to be inherently deserving of privileges or special treatment". (Both definitions are the attributionless definition Google plagiarizes, Google being such a respecter of (only its own) intellectual property.) "The rich think themselves entitled."

They're homophones. But their meanings are different and their grammatical contexts are always different. The adjective ascribes an attitude to a person, and is a one-place predicate. The past participle has to have "who's entitling" and "entitled to what?" answered someplace in the context.

Here Trump's saying that churches should have the legal right to claim FEMA reimbursement, and that right would have to come from policy or legislation (or court decision).

[Girard442]

3. Naturally, the Church of Satan's rescue efforts will be supported, right?

I mean, if they extend their help to anyone who needs it, it would be wrong to deny them support.

[cyclonefence]

4. and all those mosques, too

[spanone]

6. i'm sure he's referring to the mosques / cyclonefence beat me to it!!!!

he's totally clueless

[Girard442]

8. I really meant the actual Church of Satan.

The argument for funding churches is always, "They're helping people, just like those other organizations. Why shouldn't they get some government money too?"

My response is, if this argument works for the First Baptist Church, it should apply equally well to the Church of Satan.

[malaise]

7. Pander pander pander

[Hugin]

9. They could write it off on their taxes.

Oh, wait....

[Baitball Blogger]

10. Charity: A marketing feature to draw customers in order to claim government money.

[Glorfindel]

11. How insulting to the churches in Texas! As if they'd even DREAM of taking money for helping others!

This will cost tRump dearly amongst his base, deeply committed Christians that they are, who see it as not only their duty but also their great pleasure come to the rescue of their fellow human beings. Doesn't he know that "entitled" is a filthy word to Christian conservatives? I think he's really stepped in it this time!